Thanks for writing. We understand your feelings surrounding this issue and are glad you let us know how our actions have been perceived. Your concerns have been reported to the appropriate leadership for their internal review.

When transporting live animals for medical research purposes, Air France respects and complies with standards issued by the International Air Transport Association, the European Union, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and the World Organization for Animal Health.

URGENT: Can You Spare 3 Minutes to Help Monkeys Tomorrow, February 13?

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FACT: China is the largest supplier of primates for experimentation worldwide.

FACT: China Southern Airlines is the only major airline based in China that has not banned the transport of primates bound for labs.

FACT: We need your help to urge China Southern Airlines to stop sending monkeys to laboratories to be tortured and killed.

Traumatized monkeys destined for use in experiments are crammed into small crates and loaded into the dark, terrifying cargo holds of China Southern Airlines' planes. Once they arrive at the laboratories, the monkeys are subjected to painful experiments and may be injected with or force-fed experimental chemicals or infected with diseases.

We Need Your Help

Please join the international protest against China Southern Airlines by calling the airline tomorrow, February 13. Tell the company that you won't be flying with the airline until it stops transporting primates for use in experiments.

CALL NOW: China Southern Airlines' international hotline is +86 400869553922. (Note: A short recording in Mandarin will play before the English message.)

A major company announced it will no longer use chimpanzees in biomedical research. This revolutionary change is a step in the right direction for animal welfare. Commend the company for taking action to end the suffering of research animals.

Please take a minute of your time to urge ABX Air to join nearly every other airline in the world by banning shipments of primates destined for cruel experiments. Putting the subject line and letter into your own words will help draw attention

Thank you Monika. I read the brilliant article by an intelligent caring man and embarked on reading the comments underneath.

You could predict really what a load of worthless F$!^&*g W£*%"&s there are in the world. I stopped reading their verbal diaorhea interspersed with the intermittent voice of reason before I lost the plot and decided to answer one of them.

Steven Wise has been waiting more than 30 years to give chimpanzees their day in court. A lawyer who specializes in animal protection, Wise is widely credited as a pioneer in the animal rights arena: he’s taught classes on the subject at schools including Harvard and John Marshall Law School, has written four books and countless journal articles, and is the former president of the influential Animal Legal Defense Fund.

But it’s only in recent months that Wise’s work has made national headlines. In early December, the Nonhuman Rights Project — a group that Wise founded and now runs — filed three landmark lawsuits on behalf of captive chimpanzees living in New York state. With ample scientific evidence on their side, Wise and his colleagues are hoping to prove that because chimpanzees demonstrate complex cognitive abilities, they should be recognized as legal persons with the right to live free from confinement.

A Kentucky lawmaker wants to make it legal to use monkeys as service animals. This is a bad idea for many reasons, including disease concerns and animal abuse. Urge this lawmaker to change his position; monkeys are not service animals.

A major U.S. university is cutting open live monkeys in order to conduct tests. The monkeys are forced into drug addiction, their skulls are cut open, and then are they are killed. Urge this university to eliminate this barbaric practice and adopt non-animal testing alternatives.

Noted, tweeted, shared, signed, tweeted, shared. May God forgive us. What other unbelievably cruelty can we inflict on animals. Sad, Shameful, Sorry, Sadistic,Sinful, and so disgusting that it makes me sick to be a part of humanity. Thanks for posting, Monika.

At Carleton University in Ottawa, chimpanzees are frozen in order to see how long they can last in low temperatures. All animals involved in tests have died. These cruel experiments must stop right away!

Signed. Just been on my FB page 'So you want to buy a Monkey Think again' and some f&*%$^&* brainless idiot has asked me 13 hours ago where in the UK he can buy a marmoset monkey and given his email address for me to answer him!!!!!!!!! Hours of cooling down before I reply I think!!

Chimpanzees across the United States are suffering in research labs, the entertainment industry, and the pet trade. Stand with organizations like Save the Chimps and learn about how you can help these incredible creatures.

We ask that in the course of the present inquiry into primates kept as pets, the Select Committee for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs prioritizes primate welfare and human safety, and chooses to ban the trade in pet primates. Confirmation needed.

Tell NIH: Chimpanzees Who Are "Retired" From The New Iberia Research Center (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) must go to sanctuaries, not another Laboratory or 100 will be transferred to the Texas Biomedical Research Institute (TBRI) in San Antonio.

Imagine a monkey trapped in a basement for 15 years, with no sunlight or other monkeys to play with. This is the type of cruelty we're up against. Privately owned primates are often kept caged and isolated, with their teeth and nails extracted.

Chimps are still having to endure torturous science experiments that include being injected with a wild variety of diseases. Some female Chimps are used as "birthers" and having their babies immediately taken away so they too can be medically tortured..

Four chimpanzees in New York are being imprisoned under inhumane and unhealthy conditions, when they should be released to a primate sanctuary. Sign this petition if you believe primates shouldn’t be stuck in confined spaces and subjected to research.

We keep killing, torturing, destroying habitat, selling, breaking up families, using for experimentation. And the beat goes on until we reach our goal; complete destruction of all wildlife. Damn them all. Thanks, Monika and Jan.

Signed and posted on our Baboon Facebook page. The conditions must be atrocious because our own resident sadists apparently need to go to Nairobi where welfare Laws are not as stringent so they can torture animals even more than they do here. Hateful bastards - all deserve shooting.

> 30th November 2013> Investigation uncovers the cruel capture and captivity of wild baboons for experiments in Kenya> > An investigation by the BUAV in Kenya has uncovered the capture and use > of wild baboons for research. Legislation in Kenya relating to animal > experiments is outdated and hopelessly inadequate. Wild baboons are > captured and held at the Institute of Primate Research in Nairobi under > conditions which seriously compromise their welfare and breach > international guidelines, before being subjected to disturbing > experiments by visiting researchers from the USA and Europe, including > the UK.> > Watch the BUAV video:

Snatched from the wild, baboons were crammed into small cages and shipped for many hours on the back of pick-up trucks to the IPR. The capture of wild baboons is extremely cruel and inflicts much suffering on these highly social and intelligent animals.

Protect Africa's Bonobo Great Ape from vanishing habitat in the Congo leading to extinction. Bonobo's share 98.7% of their DNA with humans and are very intelligent and caring characters with charisma and a loving nature. Global Petition to help them.

Swiss Pharmaceutical company Novartis is undergoing intensive tests on monkeys in its Horsham, UK facility.The company claims they are peacefully used for the development of new medicines, but sources confirmed that pain has been inflicted upon them!

In the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo is a species of ape that lives nowhere else in the world. Urge the Congo government to protect the shrinking habitat of this remarkable endangered species.

The Hialeah Fair in Florida has monkeys dressed in costumes, cruelly strapped and chained to the backs of dogs who race around a makeshift track. Please send an email to the owner of the fair to stop this cruelty! Email: frank@wadeshows.com

Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm is Scandinavia's only laboratory that still uses monkeys in their experiments. Animal experiments on chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans and nine species of gibbons are already banned in Sweden

As part of our mission to end the use of animals in research, testing, and education, AAVS supports sanctuaries that provide caring environments for animals formerly used in laboratories. The majority of AAVS-funded sanctuaries care for nonhuman primates

Yes Nancy it is....but WE HAVE TO CONTINUE to be the voice for those who cannot speak for themselves. Hopefully the day will come -if not now perhaps in future- that they will be free from pain and suffering.

petition Did you know that every single year, more than 10,000 monkeys are torn away from their families and shipped to their deaths in U.S. laboratories? China Southern Airlines is transporting primates to laboratories, where they are routinely in

Thousands of monkeys are transported to the USA to research laboratories to suffer cruel and inhumane experiments. In 2010, nearly 23,000 nonhuman primates destined for research laboratories were bought into the United States.

Two rhesus monkeys recently died at a research center in California. An investigation into the incident revealed more incidents, and that the entire laboratory features inadequate and dangerous conditions for the monkeys. Stop the cruelty now.

Despite the National Institutes of Health retiring all the federally owned chimpanzees at the New Iberia Research Center (NIRC) in New Iberia, Louisiana, the lab still houses a large number of privately owned chimpanzees who they have not yet

A coalition for the protection of Cameroonian great apes headed by Taiwan's Bureau of Forestry, itself largely synonymous with the Department of Agriculture, recently announced that an innovative project to preserve the long-term survival of Cameroonian

Over the years, humans have developed a fascination with the great apes which has unfortunately resulted in the capturing, selling and killing of these beautiful creatures for use in circuses, zoos, medicine and even as pets or bushmeat.

We urge the Government of Cameroon to accelerate the creation of Great Ape Reserves. Additionally, we ask that you expand sensitization programmes to increase community awareness in border areas of local wildlife reserves.

To recognize the most iconic victim of the palm oil industry, World Orangutan Day has been set as August 19 2013 where all of us can participate in the rescue and protection of this gentle primate.More info on the 1st comment.

Unsustainable palm oil plantations are the biggest threat and killer of the Orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra - these plantation Companies burn and tear down the Rainforests (the Orangutans habitat), kill and torture them.

I am still busy in "real life" and haven't much time for online activities. But I try to pop in daily to post urgent petitions. Please continue your great work for the animals !!! Thanks for all you do !! Love you !

Chimpanzees share 98% of our genetic make-up. Much like us, these intelligent and social beings form strong family bonds, seek to protect each other from harm, and nurture their young. However, humans are directly contributing to the demise of wild chimpanzee populations through the thriving illegal commercial bushmeat trade.

Signed - it is an unspeakable outrage that the U.S. has not long stopped any experimentation on chimpanzees. What hope is there for other animals? Not that we in the UK host to the monstrous Huntingdon Life Sciences can afford to comment.

I have been horrified to discover that one of your subsidiary companies has accepted a contract to transport a huge number of mon_keys from Ch_ina to the United States in order for them to be exper_imented upon in res_earch lab_oratories!

Monk_eys in laborat_ories suffer unimaginable cru_elty in exper_iments which have little if any benefit for human health. The mac_aque mon_keys you transport have a comparable awareness of a three year-old human child, so, as you can imagine, they are capable of extraordinary levels of mental suffering.

I urge you in the strongest possible terms not to transport these ani_mals, and instead I ask you to reconsider you to ban the transportation of rese_arch pri_mates as so many other air cargo carriers have!

Please take a stand against ani_mal crue_lty by cancelling any planned ship_ments of pri_mates and making a pledge not to transport res_earch prima_tes in future.

I got this and sent all mails. All were rejected as banned content. The mail has breaks and underscores in key words so I think my 'banned content' may be the words ape and monkey in my email address. Perhaps you could try a batch and see?

Following a global call-in day last month, China Southern Airlines implemented a temporary ban on the transportation of primates into Chicago.

This means that there are currently no passenger carrying airlines willing to transport animals from China to the USA and anyone wanting to import primates from China to the US will have to charter a cargo plane for the purpose.

We have now received information from a whistle blower that ABX Air, a subsidiary company of Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), will be transporting a shipment of 1,200 primates from China in the next few days!

ATSG is an American holding company, listed on the NASDAQ, who's various subsidiary companies offer the full range of charter cargo services, from logistics and ground transport through to aircraft maintenance and pilot training. The 1,200 animals will all be shipped on a specially chartered plane to spread the cost of transportation, although it will still be significantly more expensive than the labs were paying passenger airlines for shipping.

The American research industry has been struggling to import sufficient primates recently due to the successes of the airline campaigns so it is vital that we keep up the pressure on them and ensure that this shipment is also stopped! Please urgently contact Air Transport Services Group, (ATSG), to ask them to cancel any planned shipments of primates and implement a policy not to transport primates for the research industry in future!

the ones in the wild, yes, but also the ones captive in labs, zoos, and private homes. That's why we are rallying our supporters to comment on a proposed rule that would protect all chimpanzees under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

I am shocked to know that in the streets of Indonesian cities monkeys are forced by their owners to dress doll costumes, dance, ride scooters and bikes and even smoke to make money entertaining tourists.

Please, ban immediately the capture of monkeys from the wild and the monkey trade in local markets.

I also ask to stop the awful dogs fighting, an atrocious phenomenon widespread in your country.

I ask you to create an Indonesian Animal Protection Law or strengthen the current article 302 of the Criminal Code to make illegal all activities that involve the abuse of animals.

We the undersigned, call on the city of Cape Town to halt the killing of Cape Town's baboons with immediate effect. We vehemently object to the way Cape Nature Conservation, the very people who should be conserving nature, are contributing to the

It has come to my attention that your company has been transporting primates destined for the research industry, despite the fact that Nature Magazine declared that your company had not transported primates for 6 months since your ground handlers refused to unload the animals from your planes in Los Angeles last year. However, it is now become clear that you simply switched to transporting the animals through Chicago and carried on transporting to Europe as normal rather than actually stopping your transports!

Animals in laboratories suffer unimaginable cruelty in experiments that could easily be replaced with more reliable testing methods, and by transporting them your company is helping to perpetuate an unreliable, outdated and extremely controversial science that should have been replaced

30 years ago.

You should be aware that China Southern Airlines are now one of only four carriers still willing to transport primates for the research industry, and so I urge you in the strongest possible terms to join the vast majority of the airline industry and end your support for this cruel practice.

I simply cannot accept that primates continue to be used in such meaningless experiments and I assure you that I will do everything in my power to encourage people not to fly with your airline whilst you continue to support this cruel practice. There is a very good reason why so many airlines have banned this practice, and why both El Al and Air Canada have even fought legal battles for the right to end their involvement in this trade, but now that your airline has been exposed for transporting primates you can expect the negative PR that comes with being associated with the primate research industry.

The labs will never stop until their supply is cut off. Targetting airlines and other transport where we have a chance of encountering humane people is the only way. No one who tortures animals in a lab will ever change their minds.

I don't know what is wrong with this kid. Maybe drugs, definitely stupidity and a super sized ego. Even if he has to pay fines, it will mean nothing to him because he has so much money and the publicity will bring in even more money.

This talentless brat should never have that poor monkey back. He is not above the law and this should be a clear case of confiscation as it would be in U.K. The arrogant little upstart obviously thinks he can do as he pleases and the latest 'cutting' nonsense from fans all over Twitter is disgusting. He is no role model for our young people and this is just the kind of thing that encourages others to have monkeys as pets. It is time the law dealt with this problem. I wonder how many people realise that it is common practice to remove their teeth, because of course monkeys bite if upset - it is their only form of defense. I am really angry this morning. We have taken in a previous pet monkey who had his canines removed - all for the convenience of the pet owner.

Amazing how stupid humanity is! I am sure those people who own monkeys as pets love them and think they are helping them. Just goes to show that sometimes, bad things are done in the name of love. I agree with Jan; the laws should be changed, but that's not going to happen unless we can educate the public and by that, I mean people who love animals but who don't think of the consequences of their actions.